General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Is there any signage up indicating these are bike lanes? There should especially be some where it merges with the sidewalk...

Also curious, how do they terminate on the south end? I assume the intended connections here are the IHT trail to the North and the Homer Watson MUT to the south?

It's good to finally have sidewalks immediately next to the Ion station.

Signage should be coming, it usually lags completion by weeks to months (to years---looking at you Weber St.)

Going south it merges into the Homer Watson MUT very nicely. All we need is a real crossing of 7/8 for some real connections (if you're willing to brave the roundabouts anyway)...sadly for some reason despite there being plenty of space for this, it is on no road map or master plan I've ever seen...instead we'll spend 17 million dollars on a new bridge at Strasburg because that makes GRT happy.

As for going to the IHT, while Ottawa is a major active transportatio route on the cycling Master Plan, there are no current plans to extend cycling in this direction. It was entirely rebuilt under ION of course, and there is no room to retrofit anything in, I suspect this will remain a hole in the network for .... well, till we live in a different world--this is a pretty big oversight, which is pretty much par for the course for the LRT.

The region will be retrofitting a MUT in going east from the IHT on Ottawa towards King, where it will connect with planned lanes there, but westwards a retrofit looks impossible.

The most reasonable connection is to ride the MUT along the tracks up to Borden and then on road on Borden until the IHT.  Borden has no infrastructure, but it's better than riding on Ottawa.